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by jxf 4y ago
See: Microsoft Frontpage, Dreamweaver, etc.
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by jxf 4y ago
Websites were simpler to build. They were not necessarily easier to build or maintain.
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by jxf 4y ago
In NYC, all the places along the new Second Avenue line shot up immediately once it looked like construction was beginning again, and shot up even more once it opened.
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by jxf 4y ago
Can you clarify this remark? You're saying that a mutual fund told you about a programming language?
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by jxf 4y ago
Dumb question: why can't the hydrogen also come from the water vapor in the air?
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by jxf 4y ago
> If humans have to put in more energy than you get out of it, it’s just a transfer mechanism. Fusion of atomic nuclei can't yet be done by humans at better than unity. Is fusion not a power source just because we can't do it y
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by jxf 4y ago
I think they meant that _supporting_ this type of battery is a software update. Software can't do matter-energy conversion yet.
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by jxf 4y ago
Yes, it is likely. As long as the form factor is well defined or standardized, new battery chemistries are self-contained. Think of, say, how rechargeable AA batteries can fit into standard alkaline AA slots. The reason it's not true f
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by jxf 4y ago
> What does this even mean? The passage means that it's cleaner to burn the fuel once in a very efficient power plant than to have hundreds of smaller furnaces burn the same total amount of oil or coal. More complete combustion mean
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by jxf 4y ago
"Less" doesn't mean "fewer bytes", it means "less complexity". If two ASTs do exactly the same thing, but one is easier to understand and has less structure, that one is probably better.
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by jxf 4y ago
As a former Thoughtworks leader who is mentioned by proxy on this website, it's pretty lightweight in how it describes the attitude towards SAFe. It was almost universally a failure in any company that adopted it. Frequently I landed b
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by jxf 4y ago
My advice to someone earlier in their career would not be to quit, but to make them pay you while you look for your next job if the writing is already on the wall.
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by jxf 4y ago
This doesn't make sense. There are certainly options and stock to vest; every pre-IPO startup employee in the world knows about the four-year vesting schedule.
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by jxf 4y ago
Some researchers think that this is a sort of limitation of our current language structures, and that there exist more general encodings of our ideas ("engrams") that we could express if we had perfect telepathy and perfect compre
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by jxf 4y ago
> I don’t get it. What makes it worth staying 1-2 years, but not 2-3 years? Frequently, a vesting cliff.
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by jxf 4y ago
Sometimes the artist doesn't get a choice (e.g. a particular venue wants to use Ticketmaster because Ticketmaster will let them bolt on venue fees).
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by jxf 4y ago
> You published free recipes to begin with, why? This is an implication that you are offering free work and free time to other people, and give them a way to contact you directly, so why get surprised when they ask you for more favours?
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by jxf 4y ago
> I put up a free lemonade stand, and now people think they are entitled to free lemonade, and the customers never stop coming. Well don't do it then? I don't think that's a correct or fair analogy. It's more like: &g
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by jxf 4y ago
> Every time I would be told "we're a family" by a potential employer, I added $25k to my minimum salary. This is also why it's super important to screen for these kinds of signals during the interview process, and wh
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by jxf 4y ago
That was a heartbreaking story of malfeasance. This is why transparency is important -- I'd certainly want to know if one of the directors or senior executives that reported to me were engaging in bad behavior, and I'd want people
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by jxf 4y ago
This is some really fantastic, detailed analysis. I'm almost always impressed by the synthesis of knowledge required to be authoritative on expansive topics like this one.
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by jxf 4y ago
Q: Who is Herb and what's the "new thing"?
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by jxf 4y ago
Wouldn't doing the same thing without FHE also result in the same problem?
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by jxf 4y ago
The author addresses this in the first sentence: > When I went to college I discovered that I harbored a serious aversion to eating alone in public. So the answer to this remark: > It can also be as simple as eating, seated in a resta
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by jxf 4y ago
No. Your total compensation is fixed. You're deciding how much of it goes to stock (as opposed to your _grant size_ being fixed).
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by jxf 4y ago
> You are correct, but to clarify, you are saying the value declined when adjusted for inflation. That's what I meant by "adjusting for inflation" and "65% decline". Apologies if that was worded confusingly.
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by jxf 4y ago
> “There’s a high probability in my mind that the market, at best, is going to be kind of flat for 10 years, sort of like this ’66 to ’82 time period,” he said in an interview with Alex Karp, CEO of software and A.I. firm Palantir. Adjus
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by jxf 4y ago
> From a DNA perspective one can only use the Guthrie test samples for about a decade after collection Why is that? Is it because of sample degradation of some kind?
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by jxf 4y ago
Contracts like that are frequently unenforceable in the US. A no-hire provision is not a provision you agreed to, and yet it binds you. Courts take a dim view of this sort of restraint on trade.
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by jxf 4y ago
The main thing to think about here is that your application is going to be back channelled to whoever manages the client account at your current firm. How will they react to this?

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